I know the topic of salvation raises concern like no other because it hits at something foundational to our Christian faith and what we believe gives us a right to call ourselves Children of God.

Recently someone I only slightly knew from my old neighborhood growing up but with whom I’ve come to admire and respect after connecting on FB wrote this comment on my blog after reading an old blog post on Salvation by Being Good:

James chapter three advises that “not many of you should become teachers..” To be certain of your findings is worrisome. “For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.” 2 Timothy 4:3

But here’s the thing. We have to consider that it’s quite possible, or even quite likely, that for the last 2000 years Christian thought has progressed to a point where any true representation of God as a God who loves his children enough to overlook their sins without them even asking – like most any father does with his children – seems “too good to be true”, because we have been so accustomed to accepting a belief about God that makes him to not have even as much grace and compassion as your typical human father.